The Kurdistan Regional Government, UK Representation

Gulan is very grateful to the KRG UK Representation for its help with funding for Gulan’s events, including Runaki 1 when Gulan was an unknown quantity. The KRG’s support is an important endorsement and recognition of Gulan for the work it is doing and the impact it has made.

All Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq

The purpose of the APPG is to promote friendship and understanding between the people of the Kurdistan Region and the UK. The APPG have kindly agreed to be a sponsor for Gulan. We appreciate the recognition that this gives.

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq

BISI has kindly made development grants to Gulan to aid in planning its Jews of Kurdistan and Christians of Kurdistan events. BISI and Gulan jointly hosted a lecture by David Michelmore & Dr John MacGinnis titled ‘Erbil: Research, interpretation and conservation of the World’s oldest city’.

Nour Festival of Arts

Gulan is proud to be a partner of the Nour Festival of Arts, organised by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Nour is an annual celebration of the best of contemporary Middle Eastern and North African arts and culture. Gulan featured prominently in the festival in both 2014 and 2015, and we look forward to many future collaborations.

AMAR Foundation

Nuova Icona

Nuova Icona Association for the patronage of Contemporary Visuals Arts based in Venice has generously helped with the arrangements for the Gulan residencies for young Iraqi artists in Venice during the Art Biennale in 2013 and 2015. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.

St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

St Ethelburga’s gave vital support for Gulan’s launch and hosted Gulan’s first Runaki festival in 2009. St Ethelburga’s continued to allow Gulan to use its space for the Runaki 2 and Runaki 3 festivals, and for the first two events in Gulan’s series celebrating Kurdistan’s minority religions.

Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights

The Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights supported Gulan trustee Rebwar Saed in his Colouring the Dream project, in which he worked with children in the Barike camp near Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. The resulting artworks were exhibited by Gulan in the exhibition Conflict and Hope: Art in Troubled Times, as part of the 2015 Nour Festival of Arts.

The Kurdish Project

Sho-Net Systems

Sho-Net Systems, led by Clyde Williams and Steve Rose have provided critically important “Cloud Computing” support to Gulan. They have helped Gulan to adopt and make use of the Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to enable us to inform all our supporters about Gulan news.